Promoting a paragraph

Vladislav S. Davidzon davidzon at metronet.lib.mi.us
Mon Oct 6 18:22:34 EDT 1997


After looking at the code and the question again, I noticed the <P> tag...
That is whats causing the spacing between the lines... What you want to
use is either BR tags or dd/dt...

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Vladislav S. Davidzon                     davidzon at tech-center.com 
Technology Assistant                      Farmington Community Library 
Phone: (248) 553-0300                     Fax: (248) 553-3228
32737 W. 12 Mile Road                     Farmington Hills, MI 48334

"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and its a privilege of wisdom
to listen."  - Oliver Wendell Homes
          
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am associated with, unless otherwise specified.  
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On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Gerald M. Furi wrote:

> Style Sheets are the answer, but if you want to write to "lowest common
> denominator: browsers, then use a  definition list
> (                                 <DL>
> 
> <DT> URL goes here
> 
> <DL> Description goes here
>                                                                        </DL>)
> 
> gmf
> 
> Vladislav S. Davidzon wrote:
> 
> > I hope I understood this correctly... But why not use <BR> tags?
> > <A HREF="blah.com">Blah.com!!!!</A><BR>Blah.com is a great web site
> > for...<BR>
> >
> > Another possibility would be tables...
> >
> > .........................................................................
> > Vladislav S. Davidzon                     davidzon at tech-center.com
> > Technology Assistant                      Farmington Community Library
> > Phone: (248) 553-0300                     Fax: (248) 553-3228
> > 32737 W. 12 Mile Road                     Farmington Hills, MI 48334
> >
> > "It is the province of knowledge to speak, and its a privilege of wisdom
> > to listen."  - Oliver Wendell Homes
> >
> > All opinions are my opinions only, and not those of any organizations I
> > am associated with, unless otherwise specified.
> > .........................................................................
> >
> > On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Nancy Webb wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am fairly new at web design and am able to promote lists
> > > and such, however, I am trying to design a paragraph with a
> > > hypertext link on one line, and on the next line a description
> > > of the hypertext link (indented twice so that it stands out.)  I
> > > can't seem to do this without leaving a space between the
> > > 1st and 2nd lines.
> > >
> > > I have written the following:
> > >
> > > <A HREF=_________________></A></P>
> > > <UL>
> > > <UL>
> > > text
> > > </UL>
> > > <BR>
> > > </UL><P>
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any suggestions?  Any help would be
> > > appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thank you very much.
> > >
> > > Nancy Webb
> > > Ottawa General Hospital Library
> > > 501 Smyth Rd
> > > Ottawa, ON  K1H 8L6
> > > (631)737-8530
> > > e-mail: nwebb at ogh.on.ca
> > >
> 
> 
> 
> 



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